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David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries Anne Jerslev 9783030739263
RRP: $133.99SciFier: $83.07This book distinguishes itself from earlier books on David Lynch by taking in-depth consideration of his entire oeuvre. Besides his films and the Twin Peaks series, David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries... -
David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries Anne Jerslev 9783030739232
RRP: $133.99SciFier: $124.61This book distinguishes itself from earlier books on David Lynch by taking in-depth consideration of his entire oeuvre. Besides his films and the Twin Peaks series, David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries... -
Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices Kim Knowles 9783030443115
RRP: $33.49SciFier: $23.10This book assesses the contemporary status of photochemical film practice against a backdrop of technological transition and obsolescence. It argues for the continued relevance of material engagement... -
Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives Oliver Double 9783030973506
SciFier: $126.82Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and... -
The Red Letter at the Music Hall by David Huxley
SciFier: $62.97This book reprints and analyses reviews of music hall acts from the family magazine The Red Letter, which was published by the Scottish based firm D C Thomson from 1899 to 1987. The articles under... -
Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives Oliver Double 9783030973537
SciFier: $124.61Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and... -
Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices Kim Knowles 9783030443085
RRP: $120.59SciFier: $56.27This book assesses the contemporary status of photochemical film practice against a backdrop of technological transition and obsolescence. It argues for the continued relevance of material engagement... -
The Maiden Voyage of Petrus van Stijn: A Novel Michael Charles Tobias 9783030976828
RRP: $33.49SciFier: $27.66Petrus van Stijn's world is besieged by two prime engines of destruction: massive geomagnetic storms caused by unprecedented solar storms - protracted coronal mass ejections (CME), and climate change... -
Silent Renoir by Colin Davis
SciFier: $76.37Jean Renoir (1894-1979) is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished directors in the history of world cinema. In the 1930s he directed a string of films which stretched the formal,... -
The Maiden Voyage of Petrus van Stijn: A Novel Michael Charles Tobias 9783030976859
RRP: $33.49SciFier: $20.73Petrus van Stijn's world is besieged by two prime engines of destruction: massive geomagnetic storms caused by unprecedented solar storms - protracted coronal mass ejections (CME), and climate change... -
Synthetic Cinema by Wheeler Winston Dixon
SciFier: $70.50In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon argues that 21st-century mainstream filmmaking is increasingly and troublingly dominated by "synthetic cinema." He details how movies over the last two decades... -
Script Development: Critical Approaches, Creative Practices, International Perspectives Craig Batty 9783030487126
SciFier: $140.03This book offers the first international look at how script development is theorised and practiced. Drawing on interviews, case studies, discourse analysis, creative practices and industry... -
Cinematic Virtual Reality by Kath Dooley
RRP: $80.39SciFier: $76.37With reference to traditional film theory and frameworks drawn from fields such as screenwriting studies and anthropology, this book explores the challenges and opportunities for both practitioners... -
Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity Richard Wallace 9783030085544
SciFier: $62.97This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction. It examines the ways in which mockumentary films and television... -
Zizek through Hitchcock by Laurence Simmons
RRP: $147.39SciFier: $97.14Maverick Slovenian cultural theorist, philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek has made his name elaborating the complexities of psychoanalytic and Marxist theory through the exotic use of examples... -
The Modernist Screenplay by Alexandra Ksenofontova
SciFier: $111.21The Modernist Screenplay explores the film screenplay as a genre of modernist literature. It connects the history of screenwriting for silent film to the history of literary modernism in France,... -
Script Development: Critical Approaches, Creative Practices, International Perspectives Craig Batty 9783030487157
SciFier: $137.97This book offers the first international look at how script development is theorised and practiced. Drawing on interviews, case studies, discourse analysis, creative practices and industry... -
Terrence Malick's Unseeing Cinema by James Batcho
SciFier: $151.41This unique study opens up a new dimension of Terrence Malick's cinema - its expressions of unseeing and hearing. 'Unseeing' is Malick's means of transcending the moment in order to enter the life... -
Comics as Communication: A Functional Approach Paul Fisher Davies 9783030297244
SciFier: $137.97This book explores how comics function to make meanings in the manner of a language. It outlines a framework for describing the resources and practices of comics creation and readership, using an... -
Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri by Victoria Brittain
SciFier: $76.37This book covers Mai Masri's three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her films, unique for giving agency to her subjects, tell much about the untold,... -
Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe & Wise Stephen Hamrick 9783030339579
SciFier: $91.78Contextualizing the duo's work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th... -
Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood: The Rise of the Cine-fille Mary Harrod 9783030709938
SciFier: $149.12Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there... -
Spanish Graphic Narratives: Recent Developments in Sequential Art Collin McKinney 9783030568221
SciFier: $151.41Spanish Graphic Narratives examines the most recent thematic and critical developments in Spanish sequential art, with essays focusing on comics published in Spain since 2007. Considering Spain's... -
Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood: The Rise of the Cine-fille Mary Harrod 9783030709969
SciFier: $149.12Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there... -
Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages: Structural Features and Verbal Humor Devices Anna T. Litovkina 9783030890612
SciFier: $126.82This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs. Proverbs are by no means fossilized texts but are adaptable to... -
Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages: Structural Features and Verbal Humor Devices Anna T. Litovkina 9783030890643
SciFier: $126.82This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs. Proverbs are by no means fossilized texts but are adaptable to... -
Towards a Philosophy of Cinematography by Alexander Nevill
RRP: $80.39SciFier: $76.37This book presents three interrelated essays about cinematography which offer a theoretical understanding of the ways that film practitioners orchestrate light in today's post-digital context... -
Finding the Personal Voice in Filmmaking by Erik Knudsen
SciFier: $76.93This book philosophically and creatively examines ways in which independent filmmakers may explore, through practice, the discovery and development of a personal voice in the making of their films... -
Comics as Communication: A Functional Approach Paul Fisher Davies 9783030297213
SciFier: $137.97This book explores how comics function to make meanings in the manner of a language. It outlines a framework for describing the resources and practices of comics creation and readership, using an... -
Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe & Wise Stephen Hamrick 9783030339609
SciFier: $62.97Contextualizing the duo's work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th... -
Video Games and Comedy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030883379
SciFier: $151.41Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games. This pioneering book collects chapters from a diverse group of scholars, covering a wide... -
Steven Spielberg's Style by Stealth James Mairata 9783030098681
RRP: $147.39SciFier: $97.14This book reveals how Spielberg utilises stylistic strategies that are both unique and innovative when considered within the context of the classical Hollywood system. James Mairata identifies two... -
The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy Patrice A. Oppliger 9783030372163
SciFier: $137.97This book focuses on the "dark side" of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams. Contributors, those who study humor as well as those who... -
The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy Patrice A. Oppliger 9783030372132
SciFier: $137.97This book focuses on the "dark side" of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams. Contributors, those who study humor as well as those who... -
Spanish Graphic Narratives: Recent Developments in Sequential Art Collin McKinney 9783030568191
SciFier: $151.41Spanish Graphic Narratives examines the most recent thematic and critical developments in Spanish sequential art, with essays focusing on comics published in Spain since 2007. Considering Spain's... -
Video Games and Comedy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030883409
SciFier: $151.41Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games. This pioneering book collects chapters from a diverse group of scholars, covering a wide... -
Transmedia Storytelling and the Apocalypse Stephen Joyce 9783030067533
SciFier: $62.97This book confronts the question of why our culture is so fascinated by the apocalypse. It ultimately argues that while many see the post-apocalyptic genre as reflective of contemporary fears, it has... -
Adaptation Considered as a Collaborative Art: Process and Practice Bernadette Cronin 9783030251635
SciFier: $151.41This book examines the processes of adaptation across a number of intriguing case studies and media. Turning its attention from the 'what' to the 'how' of adaptation, it serves to re-situate the... -
Justice in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh by Eamonn Jordan
SciFier: $70.50This book interrogates the various manifestations of rival systems of justice in the plays and films of Martin McDonagh, in analysis informed by the critical writings of Michael J. Sandel, Steven... -
Graphic Novels as Pedagogy in Social Studies: How to Draw Citizenship Angelo J. Letizia 9783030442545
RRP: $147.39SciFier: $138.01This book examines the study of citizenship by means of reading and creating graphic novels and comics in the social studies classroom. The author argues that utilizing graphic novels in the...